Tadpole Identification?

[kristiefeq]

Sorry about the wrong date! :P Every time I change my batteries, it resets! Also if more pictures need to be provided please let me know. My mother has a much better camera than I do, if you need to see better close ups/details.

[UncleChester]

Frogs of Quebec- http://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j&...48340889,d.aWc

It looks like a Rana clamitans. A bullfrog would also be possible but it looks like it has the beginings of the dorso-lateral folds, the little ridges running down the sides of the back, which would rule out bullfrog. Given the stage it's in, you should know one way or another pretty soon as these folds are typically pretty obviously present or absent by the time it crawls onto land. Both species will spend over a year as a tadpole so you will find large tads like this early in the year.

A mink frog may be another candidate, I've little experience with them as tadpoles, but as adults they are very similar to green and bullforgs.

Checking the area you found it in for adult frogs can also be handy for ID of tadpoles.

[kristiefeq]

Thank you very much for the reply!

I unfortunately can't go to the place where I got them very often, (I don't drive):P. But I do have some pictures of a frog from a year ago that I caught in a different pond. Though I've had these in their tadpole stage before, as well shortly after that stage, and they were still smaller, or the same size(after tadpole stage) as the new tadpoles I have now.


I absolutely love the first one! XD

and just for fun/reference, here are some toad tadpoles before/after I had before,, and normally the frog tadpoles I get are the same size.